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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest, (AXAF), (AMA), (VTBR), (GMKN)

The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media on Wednesday: * AXA Private Equity (AXAF.PA) and Permira [PERM.UL] will agree to buy travel website Opodo from Spain's Amadeus (AMA.MC) for under 500 million euros ($682.4 million), French daily Les Echos reported, citing unnamed sources. [ID:nLDE71809T] * Russian state bank VTB (VTBR.MM) sold all its shares in Norilsk Nickel (GMKN.MM) in the miner's $3.5 billion buyback, Russian news agencies quoted the bank's Deputy Chief Executive Vasily Titov as saying. [ID:nLDE7180T8]

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